acro-, acr-

An inherited disorder that includes abnormalities of the skull, face, hands, and feet: "A person's acrocephalopolysyndactylism starts with closure of some sutures of the skull and results in a tall peaked head, shallow eye sockets, and undeveloped cheekbones."

"The development of acrocephalopolysyndactylism also results in fingers and toes are fused and the thumbs and the big toes have overly broad ends."

A condition of shortening and hardening of muscles, tendons, or other tissue, often leading to deformity and rigidity as a result of spasms or the thickening and scarring of connective tissue, usually because of an injury or because of the lack of muscular balance of the joints of the hands or feet.

A circulatory disorder in which the hands, and less commonly the feet, are continually cold and blue: "Acrocyanosis is a condition in which the fingers and wrists of the hands and feet are blue or with a red discoloration of the skin of the fingers and wrists with excessive sweating and coldness of the fingers and toes because of inadequate circulation of the blood."

acrocyanotic

acrodendrophilous (adjective), more acrodendrophilous, most acrodendrophilous